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**January was Human Trafficking Awareness Month**
February 2019 | Volume 12 | Issue 1

In honor of Human Trafficking Awareness Month, the COPS  Office would like to highlight some resources available for addressing human  trafficking:
- A  Look at Human Trafficking and San Diego’s Crime Initiative for Their Southwest  Border . This article covers the work that is being done in San  Diego, California, to combat human trafficking.
- Below  Ten: Combating Drugs, Guns, and Human Trafficking at the U.S. Southwest Border .  The Below Ten project focused on three cities located on or below Interstate 10—(1)  Nogales, Arizona; (2) Pharr, Texas; and (3) San Diego, California—and  their efforts to respond to a wide range of problems related to guns, drugs,  and human trafficking. A key component of the project was the series of summits  held to develop stakeholder-led plans to respond to the wide range of  humanitarian, commercial, and enforcement issues. This publication describes  the outcomes of these summits, which brought community members together with  local, state, federal, and tribal law enforcement; public health providers;  social services; and other groups to identify problems, challenges, and  solutions. It also provides detailed information on the approach adopted by  each community and the activities that have been sustained since the project  ended.
- Child  Sex Trafficking: A Training Series for Frontline Officers . Child  Sex Trafficking: A Training Series for Frontline Officers is a toolkit  developed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police in partnership  with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the COPS Office. It includes a  series of training videos to be used in law enforcement agencies across the  country, a discussion guide meant to reinforce key information contained in the  videos and to assist officers in applying this knowledge to their role as first  responders in their community, and quick reference sheets to supplement the  videos and discussion guide.  Please note  this is a law enforcement –sensitive  training and requires authorization before shipping.
- Combating  Child Sex Trafficking: A Guide for Law Enforcement Leaders .  Child sex trafficking involves a number of crimes requiring law enforcement to  collaborate with multiple partners to identify and respond to the child victims  while holding accountable those who are responsible for their exploitation.  Combating this crime requires working with prosecutors, schools, victim service  providers, parole officers, child welfare agencies, community members, and  others. This guide aims to help law enforcement leaders adopt effective  multidisciplinary approaches to address this crime and provides tips on training,  identifying resources, and engaging communities. This guide also includes  descriptions of effective programs in five law enforcement jurisdictions.
- Exploitation  of Trafficked Women . This guide describes the problem of  exploiting women who have been trafficked into the United States and the  aspects of human trafficking that contribute to that problem. In addition, the  guide focuses on the final period in the process of trafficking at which women  are further exploited by those into whose hands they are passed. The guide  identifies a series of questions that can help law enforcement analyze their  local problems related to trafficking of women. Finally, it reviews responses  to the exploitation of trafficked women and examines what is known about the  effectiveness of these responses from research and police practice.
- Human Trafficking: Department of Labor’s  Role . Ernesto  Archila, Special Assistant at the Office of Public Engagement at the U.S.  Department of Labor, discusses the U.S. Department of Labor's work on labor  trafficking and the importance of knowing the indicators to better identify  trafficking victims.
- Human Trafficking: Sex Offender Unit .  In this podcast, Paul Brennan, Supervisory  Community Supervision Officer of the Sex Offender Unit at Court Services and  Offender Supervision Agency, discusses the unit's work and the intersection  with human trafficking.
- Human Trafficking: Working with Medical  Profs . In this  podcast, Dr. Allison Jackson, Chief of the Child and Adolescent Protection  Center at the Children's National Medical Center, discusses the center's work  with at-risk youth and how medical professionals and law enforcement can work  together to identify and assist trafficking victims.
- Interdiction  for the Protection of Children: A Program of Partnerships to Stop Trafficking . This article highlights the work that Texas  Department of Public Safety is doing to train patrol officers and service  partners on the detection, interdiction, and rescue of child victims of crimes.
- The  Intersection of Local Law Enforcement and Labor Trafficking . This article focuses on how local law  enforcement can tackle labor trafficking.
- Modern-Day  Slavery: Community Policing has a Blueprint for ‘Walking the Talk’ . This article covers steps different  organizations can take to combat human trafficking with community policing  strategies.
- New  Resources for Combating Human Trafficking . This article covers Federal Government resources for  combating human trafficking.
- Street  Prostitution, 2nd Edition.  Focusing on the problem of female  street prostitutes, this guide provides practitioners with information  regarding prostitutes, their clients, and traffickers and panderers as well as  explaining the transaction and the environment associated with the problem. It  also describes the linkage between prostitution and drugs. The guide provides  questions to ask when dealing with the problem of street prostitution,  identifies potential responses to the problem, and proposes measures to assess  the effectiveness of response approaches.

One final resource available from the COPS Office is  technical assistance. The Collaborative Reform Initiative for Technical  Assistance Center (CRI-TAC) provides critical and tailored technical assistance  resources to state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies on  a wide variety of topics, including human trafficking. By the field, for the  field—per  your agency’s request, the CRI-TAC is able to deliver personalized technical  assistance by leading subject matter experts. To learn more about CRI-TAC,  please visit the COPS Office Collaborative  Reform web page.

Nazmia Comrie, Senior Program Specialist   COPS Office

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